is it just me, or is this lawyer a total dick?

A female security guard was raped and is suing the location in which the incident occurred. Naturally, I’m defending the company that insures the business she’s suing.

Today, I talked to her attorney about scheduling a deposition in Knoxville (incidentally, if I have any Knoxville readers who want to get together for a beer immediately after this event, I will SO BE GAME), and the son of a bitch said the following:

Plaintiff’s attorney: “You know, if this were a guy who’d been abducted by three girls, and he confided in a friend about what just happened to him, his friend would be like, ‘Now where did this happen? What time?’ I guess women are different.”

Me:

Plaintiff’s attorney: “I mean, if you left the Hooters and got attacked by 3 of the Hooters girls…”

Me: “Maybe you should tell your client that’s how you feel, so that, you know, she can fire you and drop her lawsuit? It’d make my job pretty easy.”

I thought all lawyers were total dicks? When I first started school I was going to be a lawyer. I don’t know what changed, but I still think it would be good fun. I nearly took a job as a trainee patent attorney down here, but they were paying shit and expected 60 plus hours a week while I passed the exams. No thank you.

FreeMan, Feel free to come to the Atl and enroll! I’ll write you a rec letter and everything.

Jeff, I sorta doubt it will, actually. I take her deposition in a couple weeks, and I’m pretty sure we’re going to end up settling. I feel sorry for the plaintiff and sorta hate the idea of putting her through a trial. But if her lawyer wants to be unreasonable, we’ll go anyway.